Yup, fourth grade. I know I'm a baby, then I meet the people who say they weren't even born when it premiered and I feel old.

I'm not sure that any of my subsequent fandoms have lived up to the memories of what when on in the x-files. I don't know if it's a first love sort of thing or if the x-files really did have better sites. I know I've never found another archive to rival Gossamer. Maybe it's because in x-files you only really needed to keep track of the shippers and noromos as opposed to the variety of ships in other fandoms (yes I know there were slashers and Scully/Skinner type people but they didn't really enter my consciousness at the time).

In retrospect, I agree that ending it when DD left would have been better than waiting out the extra two years. At the time I think I would have been crushed.

Yeah! someone else on the blue team.